Orphans and Abandoned Children

Asia

October 16, 2018 News Release

China: Children Caught in Xinjiang Crackdown
Europe/Central Asia

October 10, 2018 News Release

Croatia: End Confinement of People with Disabilities
Europe/Central Asia

February 15, 2018 Dispatches

Russian Court Says Foster Mother Unfit Because of ‘Male Behavior’

Kaitlin Martin
Alfa Fellow, Europe and Central Asia Division

Reports More Reports

September 20, 2017

Iraq/KRG: 1,400 Women, Children From ISIS Areas Detained

Investigate Killings, Abductions of Foreign Men
February 22, 2017

“When Will I Get to Go Home?”

Abuses and Discrimination against Children in Institutions and Lack of Access to Quality Inclusive Education in Armenia
September 8, 2016

“Why Are You Keeping Me Here?”

Unaccompanied Children Detained in Greece

News

March 7, 2019 Letter

Submission by Human Rights Watch to the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child on Senegal
November 17, 2017 Dispatches

Russian Government Takes Children from Foster Mother Because of Breast Surgery

Kaitlin Martin
Alfa Fellow, Europe and Central Asia Division
October 9, 2017 Commentary

ISIS’s Other Victims

Belkis Wille
Senior Iraq Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division

Published In: Foreign Policy
September 25, 2017 News Release

Burma: Military Commits Crimes Against Humanity
September 20, 2017 Report

Iraq/KRG: 1,400 Women, Children From ISIS Areas Detained

Bill Van Esveld
Associate Director, MENA, Children's Rights Division
May 21, 2017 Dispatches

Armenia Should Prioritize Children Over Orphanages

Jane Buchanan
Deputy Director, Disability Rights Division
April 24, 2017 Dispatches

What I Told My Son About Starving Children in Belarus Orphanages

Shantha Rau Barriga
Director, Disability Rights Division
July 28, 2016 Report

Senegal: New Steps to Protect Talibés, Street Children

Lauren Seibert
Assistant Researcher, Africa Division
June 8, 2016 Witness

Witness: As If My Child Were a Burden to Me

Birgit Schwarz
Communications Manager, Africa
June 8, 2016 News Release

Serbia: Children With Disabilities Neglected
May 27, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: A Gift From Japan to Its Children

Kanae Doi
Japan Director
November 18, 2014 Commentary

Child Treaty at 25: More to Be Done

Jo Becker
Advocacy Director, Children's Rights Division

Published In: Progressive Media Project

Daily Brief

November 15, 2019

Myanmar's Rohingya victims may finally get their day in court; laws used to silence critics in Lebanon; Syria hospital bombings & role of Russia; unprecedented UN critique of China’s abusive Xinjiang policies; climate of fear for dissidents and journalists in Nigeria; and Israel may deport HRW director Omar Shakir 10 days from now.